Yibo was sleeping in his car when a strange song reached his ears and he woke up.

His manager was staring straight ahead as the driver silently drove. The radio was on and a Halloween special song played on it. The shrill voice of the female singer and eeriness emitted send a shiver throughout Yibo's body.

He gulped. "Turn it off."

"Why?" His manager spoke in a monotone still staring ahead, "It's a nice song. Reminds me of that story my grandmother had told me where a woman used to wander the streets in her white robes, late at night... all alone."

Yibo gulped harder, "Xing ge, please turn it off."

The driver obeyed this time and turned the radio off. Now total silence was established as they trailed off the highway into the lesser traffic street.

"This was the street where that lady used to wander every night. He was called the candle bride. My grandma said that lady always carried a candle with her and was seen around this time of the night searching for her lost husband."

Yibo tried to put a brave face, "I-It's just a s-story, da ge."

"Young man like you don't believe in it," the manager gave a cold laugh the before going serious, "But I beleive she is still wandering on the streets of this area searching for her husband, an unmarried, young, handsome man. She silently approaches her prey and asks him to marry her and when they get scared and refuse, she draws put a long sharp knife and-"

"Enough!" Yibo screamed, sweating profusely. "That's enough of your story. Nothing's true! It's just a story!" He was saying it more to himself than to his manager.

The manager spoke in an eerie tone, "Get out."

"What! Why!" Yibo choked, already scared, "It's my car and I won't get out. You get out!"

"We are at your stop, Yibo. Get out."

That's when Yibo realised that the car had stopped in front of his apartment complex. "Oh."

Mr Xing, the manager got out, taking Yibo's luggage. Yibo followed soon after and got in the lift. The manager handed him the luggage and got out without a word.

"Xing ge, where are you going? Come till my apartment." Yibo almost pleaded. He was still shaken by the the story of the lady ghost.

"I have to go home. Be careful, Yibo. The candle bride was said to follow her pray to his house. Beware..."

The lift closed and Yibo started trembling. "It's just a story. It's just a story. It's just a story."

He kept repeating the words over and over again till the lift opened to his floor. He wanted nothing more to run inside his home and cuddle with his Zhan ge who would drive all the ghosts away.

Yibo punched in the passcode with trembling fingers and jerked up when the door beeped and opened.

There was darkness all over inside. He tried finding the switch on his right when the door closed behind him. He switched on the light but instead of the usual white light, a strange red glow filled the room. Seeing this, Yibo was ready to bolt out of the apartment but stopped the next second,

"YIBO SAVE ME!!!" A screamed pierced the air and without a single thought Yibo threw his luggage and ran to the source of sound, "Zhan ge! What happened? Where are you?" He reached the bedroom only to find that the door was locked. 

"Wang Yibo~," A fairly high pitch voice called his name from a distance. Mortified, Yibo turned around slowly to find a woman with long silver hair and white robes holding a candle in front of her, right in the middle of the hall!

Yibo's heart stopped when the lady started inching towards him. "Stay away!" He screamed. The lady stopped in her track and tilted her head. Upon closer look, the lady's face had something while along the corner of her mouth which scared Yibo more than he already was.

"Such a fine young man! Be my husband! I want to marry you~"

Yibo couldn't speak anymore. He gaped in horror at her with wide round eyes.

"Will you marry me, Wang Yibo?" She asked inching closer.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!" Yibo ran past her towards the front door. With full force he tried yanking it open but it didn't budge. He started banging on the door and he heard someone walking towards him. "HELP ME! SOMEBODY HELP ME! OPEN THE DOOR! SAVE ME!"

"Wang Yibo~" the lady sang. Yibo turned back and saw that she was holding a large blade, her long nails scraping against it!

"You refused me!" She suddenly shrieked and Yibo shuddered. His legs froze and arms felt heavy.

"I am sorry," he said in a small voice, "I can't marry you. I love my Zhan ge so much. I am only going to marry him. I am sorry."

He hugged himself, "Zhan ge, where are you? Please save me!" He chocked as the lady drew closer and stood before him.

She raised the knife in her hand. Yibo closed his eyes waiting for the pain, his own scream after it... But he felt a soft object poking his nose.

He slowly opened his eyes.

"Happy Halloween," the lady said in a manly voice, removing the silver hair and revealing a tuft of black hair.

"ZhanZhan?" Yibo said slowly, confused about everything.

"Yup! It was a Halloween prank!" He said holding the rubber knife and bending it's blade. "Oh God, you were so scared! Initially, I thought you would recognis-"

Yibo hugged him. "I hate you!" He tried sounding like me meant it but his voice almost came as a whisper.

"Aw, did I scare you too much?"

Yibo nodded, still hugging him. Zhan picked him up, chuckling, "I am sorry." He took the boy to the bedroom where he had to open the door with a key. Putting his Yibo on the bed, Zhan kneeled on the ground.

"You are so mean," Yibo frowned as Zhan kept smiling. "First Xing ge told me this really stupid story, so I was a bit scared and then I heard your scream after coming here. And then you appeared like that... It was scary!" He hugged Zhan again.

"I am sorry." Zhan patted his head and held him close to his chest. "Well, you were the one who challenged me a few days ago. You said that 'I am the cool guy and I'm not scared of ghosts anymore'. So I decided to test it out for real. I talked about this with Xing ge and ask him to tell you this story that I made up yesterday. Then I wore this costume and asked manager jie to bring me the large rubber knife. I even changed the bulb in the hall to a red one."

Now Yibo looked closely at the robes. They were the same Lan Wangji's robes, that he had brought home as a momentum for completing the role. On the side table, a recorder was placed that explained Zhan's voice coming from the bedroom earlier. He noticed that Zhan had put a lot of make up to make him look ghostly pale and also the artificial nails. Zhan started removing the get-up and that relieved Yibo as he now looked more like his ZhanZhan than the lady ghost.

"You are so mean!" Yibo whined and hugged him again, "Who gets so devoted to scare off their boyfriend like this?"

Zhan laughed, "But my makeup was so terrible I thought you would recognise me at once. Nevermind, I am sorry. I would never do this again," he kissed Yibo forehead. "But you really said to the ghost that you refuse to marry her because you were going to marry me! Oh my god, Yibo! Seriously?"

"Of course," Yibo emphasized, "Even if a ghost, demon zombie or whatever comes, I'll tell them that I won't be going with them because I still got to marry you."

Zhan shook his head, "You are unbelievable!"

"I am a unique piece," Yibo argued back and pulled Zhan to the bed along with him. He held Zhan close to him and snuggled in the crook of his neck.
"We are sleeping like this."

Zhan wrapped his arms around Yibo, "Scared?"

Yibo looked up to meet his eyes, "Not a chance. I am a cool guy and I am not scared of anything!"

Zhan kissed the top of his head, laughing, "I believe you, Mr Cool Guy."  And pulled him closer to his chest and they cuddled to sleep.

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN🎃
This was the Halloween special chapter of our YiZhan!

Poor baby Yibo got scared. Zhan should take responsibility and cuddle him to sleep😔

Maybe Yibo would prank Zhan next🤔